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Ethics of Sustainable Development
APEC 100
Sustainabl
e
Developm
ent
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Upcoming Economic
Experiments
Trade experiment will be Tuesday of next week
Public Good experiment will be Thursday of next week.
All se

Course Introduction
APEC 100
Sustaina
ble
Develop
ment
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
What is Sustainable Development?
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
A World of Paradox
Mukesh Ambanis home
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS A

What is Sustainable Development
and Sustainability Science?
APEC 100
Sustainable
Development
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Assignments and Reading
Readings for Today
Syllabus
Sustainability Science: A Call for Collaborations (Hart and B

Economics of Public Goods
APEC 100
Sustainable
Developmen
t
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Announcements & Assignments
Grade book up and running on Sakai. Check your grades to make sure things are
correct.
Recall from the syllabus, misse

The Concept of Sustainable Development
(Ciegis et al., 2009)
Bruntland Commission definition of Sustainable Development
It postulates that sustainable development is the kind of development, which satisfies the current
needs without endangering the future

Sustainable
Developmen
t
APEC 100
Spring 2016
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What is
Sustainable
Developmen
t?
What is
Sustainable
Developmen
t?
What do YOU think sustainable development
is?
Take fi

APEC 100 Exam I Study Guide
The Concept of Sustainable Development
(Ciegis et al., 2009)
-Bruntland Commission definition of
Sustainable Development
-Concepts of Sustainable Development
-Analysis and interrelation of three elements of
sustainable developm

Environmental
Ethics
5 Business ethics for the environment
Wisdom of
Calvin
Environmen
tal Issues
from class
Remember it is a writing assignment, use full sentences.
Describe the problem succinctly but in full.
HW 1 and 2
comments
Citations are importa

Ways to Distinguish Natural Resources: Renewable and
Nonrenewable
Does human use of a resource allow it to be used more than
once?
Renewable
Examples: soil, range, forest, wildlife, fisheries, water,
air
Depletabale? Degradable?
Nonrenewable (in fixe

Policy and Planning
Every choices create opportunities and displaces others
Decision to change policy/plans and even decision to retain existing policy
or plans means that there are winners and losers
All options involve costs and benefits
o How should

The dream that failed
THE LIGHTS ARE not going off all over Japan, but the nuclear power plants are. Of the 54 reactors in
those plants, with a combined capacity of 47.5 gigawatts (GW, a thousand megawatts), only two are
operating today. A good dozen are